“Unions are all good or all bad – ennobling or parasitic. It’s an inadequate base for debate, but it’s what we have … Things, of course, are a little more complicated.
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Martin McKenzie-Murray
The trade union royal commission has been haunted by politicisation since it began, ranging from the Gillard–AWU claims, to the attempted ousting of Commissioner Dyson Heydon, to last weekend’s arrests. But with all the drama, are we missing the point?